For $20000, Can You Hack Google Chrome?

Talk about extreme confidence, but Google is so sure it's Chrome browser is unhackable that it has laid down $20,000 and a Chrome CR-48 notebook on the table as price for the first person who can prove them wrong.

Google's $20,000 plus notebook is the largest price ever offered at the P2n2Own hacking competition next month (March 9, 2011) at CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Competitors will try and hack into Google Chrome as well as Microsoft's Internet Explorer, Mozilla's Firefoxx and Apple's Safari using machines running Windows 7 or Mac OS X.

Microsoft, Mozilla and Apple have also each offered $15,000 to the first person who crack their browser' security with Aaron Portnoy, of HP TippingPoint, sponsor of Pwn2Own exclaiming that "We've upped the ante this time around and the total cash pool alloted for prizes has risen to a whopping $125,000."

According to a report at ComputerWorld.com, in order to win Google's $20,000 prize - as well as a Chrome CR-48 notebook - on the first day of the three-day event, the successful hacker must find and exploit into two vulnerabilities in its code.

On the second and third day, hackers can use a bug from outside Chrome to try and infiltrate its defences. The first successful researcher will still receive $20,000, but half the prize money will be paid by sponsor TippingPoint.

So are you up to the challenge?

TechEncounter.Net